http://www.griffinhistorical.com. A delicious decadent historical trifle. Thick performance jelly topped with lashings of imaginative creamy custard. You may also get a soggy event management sponge finger but it won't cost you hundreds and thousands.

I was in a cobblers yesterday and he had bench mounted shoe stretcher which looked like it could do the job. Or you could try what my granddad said they did to break in boots when he was in the army in WWI - pee in them and wear until dry.